Connections : Reading and Writing in Cultural Contexts

Readings Arranged by Rhetorical Strategy

PART I. ON READING AND WRITING

1. Critical Reading and Thinking: An Approach to Connecting Cultural Contexts

“Body Ritual among the Nacirema,” by Horace Miner / What Is Culture? / Why Read and Think to Understand Cultures? / Strategies for Reading and Thinking across Cultures

2. The Processes of Writing: Issues and Strategies

Understanding Your Own Writing Process / Understanding the Writing Task / Understanding the Process of Writing

3. The Aims of Writing

Expressive Writing / One Student’s Process for Expressive Writing / Informative and Explanatory Writing / One Student’s Process for Informative and Explanatory Writing / Persuasive Writing / One Student’s Process for Persuasive Writing

PART II. READINGS

4. Arrivals, Roots, and Memories

Slave Ship, Charles Ball / The Promised Land, Mary Antin / A Boat Person’s Story, Vo Thi Tam / Arrival at Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston / Rootlessness, David Morris / The World of Our Grandmothers, Connie Young Yu / Passing, Shirlee Taylor Haizlip / [fiction] Two Kinds, Amy Tan / [poetry] To Live in the Borderlands Means You, Gloria Anzaldúa

5. Families

Letter to My Mother, Tran Thinga / My Father’s Life, Raymond Carver / Chinese Puzzle, Grace Ming Yee Wai / Adoption Battles for Gay Prospective Parents, Jeffrey Gibson / Orbiting the Son, Jesse Green / Inside the Culture of Kids’ Sports, Andrew Ferguson / Tracking Down Mom, John Cloud / [fiction] Summer Water and Shirely, Durango Mendoza / [poetry] Family Ties, Jimmy Santiago Baca

6. Ways of Learning

Learning to Read and Write, Frederick Douglass / The Teacher Who Changed my Life, Nicholas Gage / I Show a Child What Is Possible, Jacques D’Amboise / The School Days of an Indian Girl, Zitkala-Sa / The Mind of Man, David Thomas / A New Kind of Street Smarts, Benjamin Pimentel / [fiction] Famous All Over Town, Danny Santiago / [poetry] First Grade, Standing in the Hall, Cheryl Savageau

7. American Dreams and Conflicts

I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr. / A Chinaman’s Chance: Reflections on the American Dream, Eric Liu / Why Willy Loman Lives, The Economist Editorial / The Revolt of the Evil Fairies, Ted Poston / Working for the Dream, Maya Angelou / Stars and Stripes—and Stress, Jerry Adler / [fiction] Death of the Right Fielder, Stuart Dybeck / [poetry] Ellis Island, Joseph Bruchac

8. Women and Men

Letters: The Place of Women in the New American Republic, John Adams and Abigail Adams / Where I Come from Is Like This, Paula Gunn Allen / Between a Rock and a Soft Place: A Century of American Manhood, Peter Filene / Asian Girls: A Cultural Tug of War, David Haldane / Hope in a Jar, Kathy Peiss / Alternative Bride, Marjorie Ingall / The Gender Blur, Deborah Blum / [fiction] The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant, W. D. Wetherell / [poetry] The Wedding Couple, Donald Hall

9. Questions of Language

What’s Wrong with Black English? Rachel L. Jones / Talking Like a Lady, Robin Lakoff / A Question of Language, Gloria Naylor / Americanization Is Tough on Macho, Rose Del Castillo Guilbault / Laughing in English, Cathy N. Davidson / Mother Tongue, Amy Tan / [fiction] English as a Second Language, Lucy Honig / [poetry] A Gathering of Deafs, John Heaviside

10. Rights and Responsibilities

A Loaded Question: What Is It about Americans and Guns? Leonard Kriegel / The Price of Preference, Shelby Steele / Artistic Freedom: A Gathering Storm, Ira Glasser / Marriage Ed, Tamar Lewin / Benevolent Bribery—Or Racism?, Margot Hornblower / The War on Alcohol, Anna Quindlen / [fiction] Lullaby, Leslie Marmon Silko / [poetry] Ethics, Linda Pastan

11. Popular Culture and Media Messages

Did Somebody Say, “Give Me a Sign Lord”?, Tom Kuntz / Warning: Viewer Discretion Advised, Janet Reitman / Star Wars Forever, Gloria Goodale / Romance with Relish, Please, Elizabeth Kendall / Out of the Closet and Into Your Living Room, Patrick McCormick / The Stresses of Youth, the Strains of Its Music, Ann Powers / [fiction] Donald Duk and the White Monsters, Frank Chin / [poetry] The Death of Marilyn Monroe, Sharon Olds

12. Technology and Ethics

Eggs for Sale, Rebecca Mead / Of Luddites, Learning, and Life, Neil Postman / More People, More Pollution, Betsy Carpenter / We Have No Real Choice about Death, Victoria L. Macki, M.D. / Bigots on the Net, Amy Harmon / Can Technology Make Us Colorblind?, Brian Kaufman / Of Headless Mice... and Men, Charles Krauthammer / [fiction] There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury / [poetry) Maybe we’ll see..., Charles Bukowski

PART III. A GUIDE TO FINDING AND USING INFORMATION

Locating Books / Locating Articles in Periodicals / Internet Searches / Evaluating Internet Resources / Taking Notes / Using Your Notes / Documenting Sources / Sample Research Papers

Credits

Index

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